Living sports is a chest behold life that comes with mixed feelings positive and negative. Every year in sports has its drama and fairy tales,2023 is another year that will live long to be forgotten in the sports to followers of the premiere league and Uganda premiere league.
With Contrast Arsenal fc and sports club Villa, teams who last won their respective league titles in the same year 2004 ,These are house hold teams in their respective countries England and Uganda.
These two teams are unique, Arsenal fc have the highest number of fans on the African continent according to a fan survey by the premiere league, it has the most expensive season ticket on the league and the only team to ever win the premiere league unbeaten. For sports Club Villa is Uganda’s league record all time title holder and the team that holds the most number of double trophies the Ugandan football.
In 2015, both teams restored hopes for along time to their fans and in the final games they lost the titles. Sports Club Villa lost the title to vipers football club and Arsenal fc lost the title to Leicester city and hopes we’re buried for the league titles another fail for both clubs.
In the concluded season 2022-2023 both teams shocked followers of football as the chased the title since match day one and they lifted the hopes of their fans of getting their hands to trophies in close to two decades. They led the tables for the longest period of the season until the last lap when they lost their footings again.
Yet another successful failure campaign , Arsenal lost the title to Mancity who didn’t have a good season as expected of their standards and similarly Sports Club Villa also lost the title when it lost on the last day of the league giving the title to SC Vipers who didn’t have a good season in the beginning as one would expect . Both mancity and SC Vipers won titles not because of being too good but simply because of the inadequacy of Arsenal and Sports club Villas in the last lap.
The fairy tales for mancity and Vipers continued yesterday as they clinched second titles of the seasons . Mancity defeating Manchester united in the FA cup final and SC Vipers trouncing Police FC in the Kakungulu cup (Uganda cup).
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KATONGOLE ARNOLD